Leading District A Council candidate Jay Batt emerged as the clear winner in the first candidate debate on WDSU – Channel 6 tonight.
While other candidates lacked knowledge of the City Charter and had poorly defined opinions on basic issues affecting the future of New Orleans, Batt clearly laid out his approach to solving the problems of City Government with clear, concise answers to moderator Norman ...read more

Many of the issues facing the city of New Orleans, including the problems of blight and lack of government transparency, were understood by Jay Batt during his tenure on the New Orleans City Council. Jay was instrumental in authoring an ordinance to establish a deadline for the remediation or demolition of properties and penalties for those who failed to ...read more

Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro this morning endorsed Jay Batt in the race for New Orleans City Council District A.
At a 10 a.m. press conference, Cannizzaro said Batt is a committed partner in public safety and the ongoing battle against crime, and encouraged the voters of Council District A to give Batt their support, as well.
“With the help and support of people like Jay ...read more

The video on this page contains the testimony of a panel of civic and political leaders in the New Orleans community to the U.S. Congress on November 17, 2005. This was one of many trips Jay Batt made to Washington on behalf of New Orleans, and he was the only representative of the New Orleans City Council on this panel, whose other members included Mayor ...read more